Is There a Cracking Crop of Apples?

It was such a warm, dry summer does that mean you've had a cracking crop of apples? It certainly looks like that when I'm looking at the trees just now, and I see apples on most of them. However, the dryness in the spring is a problem, the trees are needing water there when the blossom comes out so we've had to water them with an IBC watering can. Who would have thought that I would be watering 750 apple trees in May and Scotland? Are they nice to eat? Take a bite and tell me. The cider apples are known as spitters, and the texture is a lot drier, and there's a lot of tannins